The Points/Locations/Schools (points.shp) corresponds to the TIGER Landmark Points shapefile (pointlm.shp).
The TIGER pointlm shapefiles contain attributes of landmark points.
For TIGER 2012, there are approximately 785,000 landmark points in the 50 states and DC pointlm.shp files.
Landmark points are not a primary content for the Census Bureau.
The scope of landmark points is not well developed in the TIGER shapefiles, many points are missing names and
the quality of the MTFCC code assignment can be improved.

There are approximately 130,000 U.S. public and private K-12 schools
(MTFCC category K2543).
There are only 9,163 point records coded with MTFCC K2543 in TIGER 2012.
The term "school" appears in the FULLNAME field in only 5,720 point records.
A very large number of point record FULLNAME values are empty.
For schools, many are named in the manner Mid Schl or High Schl with no identifying school name.

Fields with ** are not part of the TIGER structure and are unique to the DMD structure.
The TIGER Editor can be used to derive the original TIGER data/records from this DMD version.

FieldName

Width

Type

Description

DPOINTID **

10

string

DMD permanent point ID

STATUS **

1

String

DMD review Status

DFCC **

6

String

DMD Feature Class Code

NAICS **

6

String

NAICS code

PARENTID **

10

String

Multi-location parent ID

DLID **

10

Integer

DMD permanent edge ID where point located

DFID **

10

Integer

DMD permanent face ID where point located

ADDRESS **

12

String

Address number

STATEFP

2

String

State FIPS code

COUNTYFP

3

String

County FIPS code

ANSICODE /1

8

String

GNIS code

POINTID

22

String

Point landmark ID

FULLNAME

100

String

Full Name

MTFCC

5

String

MAF/TIGER Feature Class Code

Notes
1/ not used in DMD
DLID is the edge/road ID on which point is located (enables lookup of road attributes).
DFID is the edge/road face ID on which point is located (enables lookup of all face features).

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